Fyodor Trepov

Fyodor Fedorovich Trepov (1809-1889) was a colonel of the Russian Empire.

Biography
Fyodor Fedorovich Trepov was born in 1809, the natural child of Friedrich Wilhelm von Stenger, and a registered member of the Russian nobility. He joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1831 and helped in crushing an uprising in Congress Poland, and he put down another Polish uprising in 1863-1864. In 1866, he became the chief of St. Petersburg's police force, and he governed the city from 1873 to 1878. In 1878, Vera Zasulich shot Trepov after he ordered the flogging of a political prisoner, but he would survive and retire with the rank of Cavalry General.